Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
This is a non-human example of reciprocal altruism.
ReplyDeleteI see you're getting economism down!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Ryan, did you see I revised my estimate of Rowe's model after his comments here? I was misled by his descriptions of the model.
I am firmly against model blindness. I just don't see how this should change the priors of modern people who believe that nature is very violent, typically.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I have little to add with respect to the argument across the blogs in general, which is why for the most part I kept my head down...
"the priors" -- a few more years of education, Ryan, and you will achieve complete incomprehensibility to all but 100 other people!
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